This is the story about growing up in a poor cowboy/farmer family, serving in the armed forces during WWII, and then starting at the bottom in the oil fields of West Texas and then rising to an office position in the Gulf Building in down town Midland, Texas.

Dub Riley was born in 1927. His dad was a ranch cowboy and the family moved 13 times and finally settling in Odessa, Texas. He served in the Marines during WWII and came back to work in the oil fields starting as a roustabout learning oil production from the bottom up. He would eventually become the purchasing agent for Gulf Oil Company. His knowledge of the oil field led him to help develop oil field production in several counties in Texas and New Mexico.